using my own regs

[Mossman]

I've got a DIN Adaptor for my Oceanic Delta Reg, and it takes a standard sized wrench (I forget exact size - maybe 3/16 - but there is one on my Diver's Multi-Tool) and about 45 seconds to switch out from Yoke to DIN or back.

I can do the switch on an Atomic in 15 seconds, once it's in the vise and I have my large wrench in hand.

---------- Post added April 16th, 2014 at 07:15 AM ----------

Switching from yoke to DIN or the other direction would likely be the sort of thing one would do at home before a dive trip

True, but for me, who doesn't even own a vise let along a workbench, it required taking everything to a friend's garage. I switched mine over to yoke when I got sick of lugging a DIN adapter on warm water trips (I was mainly diving cold water at the time using DIN-valved HP tanks). Since the switch to yoke, I never switched back - the friend with the vise moved out of state. Figured it was easier to just give up cold water diving

 

[birdie1986]

It will be no problem with our HP tanks, actually rated to 232 BAR or 3475 PSI. Even if you had an ancient reg we could adapt it. The limiting factor of old regs was only the pipe fitting going into the reg. For years we did a simple change out of those pipe fittings, took two minutes and we never had a problem. But all of that is history and now, its no problem at all.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

PS The high pressure DIN valve has a threaded insert which the yoke connects with. If a diver has a DIN reg, a simple allen (hex) wrench unscrews the insert and it is ready for DIN. These valves are known as Thermo Valves.

We are coming down to dive with you in July. We have regulators from 2007 that are yoke. Glad to know we can still use them. I didn't realize the technology had changed so quickly.